Companies, especially start-up businesses, routinely agonize over the development of new products and services, costs and pricing, as well as their physical plant, operations, sales, distribution, human resources, etc. However, these companies rarely pay enough attention to the intellectual property (IP) aspects of their business, mostly because they are unfamiliar with core IP concepts. There … Continue reading “Four Disastrous IP Mistakes Most Companies Make”

It’s too bad there isn’t some Miranda-type warning before posting on social media, something along the lines of: what you post online can and will be used against you in a (family) court of law. It seems elementary but it bears repeating: be careful what you post—whether it’s on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or even … Continue reading “Self-Defeating Tweeting (and other social media pitfalls)”

By Lynne Levin Kaufman, Esquire @gaminglawyer For those of you who have been asleep for the past 24 hours, yesterday the Supreme Court declared the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA) unconstitutional and gave states the ability to decide whether or not to legalize sports wagering, and to craft, through legislation … Continue reading “New Jersey – “Bettor” Than Ever: #SportsBetting”

by Lynne Levin Kaufman, Esquire @iGamingLawyer ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – May 14, 2018 – By now, most of you have heard that the U.S. Supreme Court today held that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), the more than 25 year old federal law that prohibited full blown sports betting in all states but … Continue reading “U.S. Supreme Court Allows States to Legalize Sports Betting”